Tottenham did a huge favor this Sunday to their great rival from north London, Arsenal, leader of the Premier and that maintains a 5-point lead over Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City (with a game pending for the ‘Gunners’) thanks to the victory of Spurs, with a stellar Emerson and a historic goal from Harry Kane, over the ‘citizen’ team, 2nd (1-0 ). Tottenham is still 5th, 11 behind Arsenal.
History says that Pep Guardiola’s City have never won at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, Spurs’ new home, and they couldn’t this time either. The ‘citizens’ have not even managed to score a single goal in said scenario, in 5 games in all competitions. Antonio Conte, operated on Wednesday for his gallbladder, could not be on the bench. He did it in his place du assistant Cristian Stellini.
City dominated at the start, as usual, but in the 15th minute they received a huge blow when Harry Kane made history by scoring his 267th goal as a Tottenham playerthe one that made him the historical ‘pichichi’ of the Spurs alone, by surpassing the 266 achieved by the legendary Jimmy Greaves.
In addition, with this goal the Tottenham star already has 200 in the Premier. He only has Wayne Rooney (208) and Alan Shearer (260) ahead. It was when the quarter hour was up when Pierre Hojbjerg took advantage of a mistake by Rodri to take the ball that the midfielder directed to Rico Lewis. The Danish midfielder assisted Harry Kane, who hit a shot past Ederson with his right foot.
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Manchester City had to come back and Tottenham’s orderly work in defense became a nightmare for Erling Haaland and for all of City. The Norwegian star could not find holes. Emerson Royal played at an imperial level in defence. Julián Álvarez did have chances, but the Argentine world champion lacked precision when shooting on goal.
Tottenham didn’t just defend that golden goal, they sought to extend their lead and created danger thanks to Dejan Kulusevski’s tackles. Kane continued as a threat for the ‘citizens’, like Son Heung-min, although he was not the best of the South Korean’s matches. On the counterattack, Spurs could have scored their second goal. Ederson saved as best he could at 77′ a shot from Son.
In the 59th minute, Kevin de Bruyne came on to replace Riyad Mahrez, who had hit the crossbar with a ball. City improved with the Belgian midfielder, with his accurate passes, but later he fell into the same problems. Cristian Romero was sent off at 87′ seeing the second yellow card for a tackle on Jack Grealish.
Totttenham: Crying; Emerson, Rosemary, Dier, Davies, Perisic (Sessegnon, 79′); Hojbjerg, Bentancur; Kulusevski (Sanchez, 88′), Son (Bissouma, 84′) and H. Kane
Manchester City: Ederson; Lewis, Walker, Akanji, Aké; Rodri, Grealish, Silva (Gundogan, 84′); Mahrez (De Bruyne, 59′), Julián Álvarez and Haaland
Gol: 1-0, Kane (15′)
Referee: Andrew Madley. Yellow cards: Bentancur (23′) and Perisic (75′) for Tottenham and Ederson (23′) and Walker (96′) for City. He sent off Romero for a double yellow card (26′ and 87′)
Spectators: 61.747 at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
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Already in discount, after a perfect cross from Grealish, Rodri starred in a clash with Hugo Lloris. He tried all over City, but Tottenham Hotspur Stadium remains off-limits territory for those of Guardiola.
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